Investigators said the incident began when the child's parents confronted the principal at Nicolet High School last Wednesday. The principal told them he would contact them the next day to arrange a meeting about their son being cut from the basketball team.

According to a police report, the boy's father went downstairs, walked through a locker room to a locked team conference room and knocked on the door where the head coach was meeting with 12 players.

Coach Paul Hepp later told an officer that the parent's temper was "out of control," that he called Hepp a "racist profanity" and told the kids on the team to "watch your little booties."

Assistant Coach Jerry Pittz told police that there was "no hands on, that it was all verbal," according to the report.

Hepp said the parent's temper made him fear for his safety, and he asked that a police escort him to his vehicle after practice.

The parent was arrested at his home a few hours later. Police said the man "admitted that he acted in a disorderly manner at the high school" and that "he would use this experience as a learning tool for his son, showing him how not to go about things."

A police officer wrote that she did not think the parent was a threat to the school.

The father told WISN that he had a court date Friday and that he did not want to cause any more trouble. He said he believed his son was treated unfairly and with disrespect.